Quote: Pickle @ April 27 2009, 11:28 PM BSTAnd now for something completely Double Gloucester...
See now that doesn't work on any level.
It was so bad I read it and thought "Cheesus Christ!"
Over to you, Marc P 
Baby Cow Page 5
Quote: Lee Henman @ April 24 2009, 10:31 AM BSTJust to flag up if you live in the North, Baby Cow have an office in Manchester run by Gill Isles, producer of Ideal. She's a nice gal and knows her comedy. The office is in New Broadcasting House.
Do you reckon if you address a script to her personally (Maybe even hand it in at Broadcasting House)it will get looked at or do you reckon it will be used to prop up a table leg?
Quote: silentbob69 @ April 29 2009, 6:36 PM BSTDo you reckon if you address a script to her personally (Maybe even hand it in at Broadcasting House)it will get looked at or do you reckon it will be used to prop up a table leg?
It'll get looked at.
Quote: silentbob69 @ April 29 2009, 6:36 PM BSTDo you reckon if you address a script to her personally (Maybe even hand it in at Broadcasting House)it will get looked at or do you reckon it will be used to prop up a table leg?
Quite possibly both.
Had an email from Baby Cow yesterday, saying they no can longer take on unsoliciated material. Anyone else get an email like this?
Quote: Michael Everett @ April 30 2009, 10:32 PM BSTHad an email from Baby Cow yesterday, saying they no can longer take on unsoliciated material. Anyone else get an email like this?
That's surprising. And a little bit sad.
Quote: Michael Everett @ April 30 2009, 10:32 PM BSTHad an email from Baby Cow yesterday, saying they no can longer take on unsoliciated material. Anyone else get an email like this?
So they didn't even read your script?
Quote: Lee Henman @ May 1 2009, 12:38 AM BSTThat's surprising. And a little bit sad.
If true it is sad, maybe it's a temporary thing as they clear a back log?
Quote: Lee Henman @ April 28 2009, 1:37 AM BSTSee now that doesn't work on any level.
It was so bad I read it and thought "Cheesus Christ!"
Over to you, Marc P
I don't do puns. I do very clever plays on words! Monty Python? Pyth Off more like!
Quote: Lee Henman @ April 29 2009, 6:59 PM BSTIt'll get looked at.
By the security guard as he feeds it into the shredder.
Quote: catskillz @ May 1 2009, 1:43 AM BSTSo they didn't even read your script?
They didn't say
"due to limited resources and the sheer number of scripts we receive we have decided that we are unable to clear our backlog and can no longer accept unsolicited scripts or proposals"
Probably didn't
It was bound to happen.
Because of the success of Gavin And Stacey and numerous other shows, comedy writers good and bad (and really bad!) flocked in their masses to BabyCow, just as chidren's writers flocked to Bloomsbury with their manuscripts following the success of Harry Potter.
A similar thing happens to bands who are on the same labels as big Pop groups. I remember an English Hip hop group, called The Brotherhood, who were signed to Virgin Records, back in '96. One minute they were being taken to restaurants by label execs, and looking foward to being one of the few proper, credible UK Hip hop groups to taste chart success, then suddenly, one of the label's other groups became the biggest thing since Michael Jackson, and The Brotherhood were left to rot, as the label put all their energy into promoting this new group. The name of this new group, in case you were wondering, was The Spice Girls.
And is it really worth their while to wade through thousands of scripts to uncover about one person every two years?
That's true, but they would save themselves a lot of deadwood submissions if they gave feedback or general articles about common mistakes, what type of work they've got enough of, what they're short on etc. At least then the quality of the slush pile might improve.